DISCIPLINE AND PUNISH (THE YEAR IN KRAMPUS)
…way for privatizing the MBTA. McDonald’s, Burger King and other fast food giants are naughty for paying their Bay State workers sweatshop wages—and fighting tooth-and-nail to stop them from unionizing….
FIGHT WHERE YOU STAND: ORGANIZING FOR DEMOCRACY ON THE JOB CAN SPARK A MOVEMENT FOR DEMOCRACY NATIONWIDE
…workers strike for better pay and benefits, and the Boston Carmen’s Union’s recent civil disobedience action against privatization at the MBTA—it’s worth reflecting on the difference between unionized workers and…
AUTONOMOUS PROFITEERING: CORPORATE NETWORKS ENLIST BOSTON TO HELP THEM SELL SELF-DRIVING CARS … AND ELIMINATE JOBS
…mostly unregulated “online transportation network companies” like Uber and Lyft. And many people who hold those professional driving jobs—like truck drivers or MBTA bus and train drivers—are members of labor…
THAT ‘FREE SPEECH’ THING
…unknown number of undercover cops. The MSP had around 200 troopers available and definitely deployed at least some of them, the MBTA Transit Police had a “substantial presence” including undercovers on duty,…
REAL RIDESHARING
…the dismantling of existing public transit systems like the MBTA by gradually privatizing them, those systems — or agencies set up by individual cities — could run municipal ridesharing services at cost….
STOP BAKER’S ‘MORE SCHOOL COPS AND SURVEILLANCE’ PLAN
…capital projects. Like fixing public transportation infrastructure that stubbornly continues to disintegrate no matter how much Gov. Baker’s hand-picked MBTA flacks claim they don’t need any more money—as they had…
LESS BUILDING, MORATORIUM
…200-person capacity room was already filled, with latecomers having to stand. People were still getting off buses at the Dudley MBTA station next door, looking to get in. Inside, City…
MAN OF FATE
…City Hall and find themselves in Cambridge. They have to deal with awful drivers and crowded trains like the rest of us. There are small details as well. MBTA buses…
THE RIGHT QUESTION FOR THE BROAD LEFT
…of yet another wildly unpopular MBTA fare hike (courtesy of Gov. Charlie Baker and his allies) just after a couple of shocking recent subway derailments to call for major public…
CAN HOLLAND STREET BE SAFE FOR ALL?
…activities. And then for three hours during the peak hours of the morning, it’ll be an extension of the bus lane to make sure MBTA buses can transit the space…